Lotteries in Public Life - Imprint Academic

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Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past few decades have changed that with a veritable renaissance of studies on lotteries. This book collects fourteen of the most important of these papers, and offers a critical introduction tying them together.
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Editor's Introduction

1. Vilhelm Aubert, Chance in Social Affairs

2. Dael Wolfle, Chance, or Human Judgment?

3. Dennis C. Mueller, Robert D. Tollison, and Thomas D. Willett, Representative Democracy via Random Selection

4. Hank Greely, The Equality of Allocation by Lot

5. George Sher, What Makes a Lottery Fair?

6. Barbara Goodwin, Justice and the Lottery

7. Richard G. Mulgan, Lot as a Democratic Device of Selection

8. Lewis A. Kornhauser and Lawrence G. Sager, Just Lotteries

9. Torstein Eckhoff, Lotteries in Allocative Situations

10. Fredrik Engelstad, The Assignment of Political Office by Lot

11. Willem K.B. Hofstee, Allocation by Lot: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis

12. John Broome, Fairness

13. David Wasserman, Let Them Eat Chances: Probability and Distributive Justice

14. Sigmund Knag, Let's Toss for It: A Surprising Curb on Political Greed
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Credit: Andy Lancaster

"Because lotteries are used in many societies to resolve issues and perhaps because of recent discussion of the use of the lottery to allocate school places, this is a hot issue which raises fundamental questions about democracy and choice... I was left thinking that when we allow ourselves to be mastered by chance, perhaps we are closer to admitting the limits of human knowledge and capability, and thus perhaps we are more genuinely close to an almost spiritual acceptance of fate."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 01 August 2011
- ISBN-13: 9781845402082
- Extent: Main content page count : 250
- Code: 1845402081
- Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm
- Weight: 350 grams
- List Price: £14.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

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Title: Lotteries in Public Life
Subtitle: A Reader
Edited by: Peter Stone
Collection: Sortition and Public Policy
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Imprint: Imprint Academic

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